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Never forget: causation does not necessarily imply correlation
by NegativeLatency 9y ago
Never forget: causation does not necessarily imply correlation
- blfr 9y agoWhat would that mean in this context? A pretty reasonable explanation is that men and women have different interests. Egalitarian countries generally provide an environment where people are free to express these differences in preferences. A mechanism that would make it causal.
- shar3333f 9y agoNot sure if on purpose, but think you got that the wrong way around.
- stygianguest 9y agoDid you accidentally reverse the arrow? Or is there a smart joke sailing over my head?
- trendia 9y agoTotally irrelevant to this article, but you are technically correct. Let X = "angle" Let Y = sin(X) Then X has a causal relationship with Y, but Corr(X, Y) = 0. I doubt that's what you're saying, though!
- kazinator 9y agoHowever, small deltas around a particular X correlate with corresponding small sigmas around the corresponding Y.